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| caption = ''Don Quixote'', sketched by [[Pablo Picasso]] on August 10, 1955.
| caption = ''Don Quixote'', sketched by [[Pablo Picasso]] on August 10, 1955.
| author = Miguel de Cervantes
| author = Miguel de Cervantes
| central theme = the dangers of confusing reality with fiction, the power of positive action and noble actions on people.
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| elevator pitch = Consumed with tales of chivalry, a man takes the original quixotic journey.
| elevator pitch = Consumed with tales of chivalry, a man takes the original quixotic journey.
| genre = Satire
| genre = Satire
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The story is about an old [[Blue Blood|''hidalgo'']] named Alonso Quijano, [[You Watch Too Much X|who was so into]] [[Chivalric Romance|chivalric novels]] that he became insane and [[Ascended Fanboy|decided that he was a vagrant knight]]. [[Meaningful Rename|Quijano renames himself as "Don Quixote de La Mancha"]] and decides to [[Glory Seeker|win eternal fame]] through [[Knight in Shining Armor|the besting of wrongdoers and general upholding of the Chivalric Code]]. Unfortunately for a lot of innocent people, his delusions [[Lord Error-Prone|make him pick fights]] with <s>other knights</s> innocent bystanders, some of whom do not fight back because Don Quixote is obviously <s>superior in his fighting skills</s> crazy. Of course, there are strangers who are not that sympathetic, and after one of those [[Hilarity Ensues|delivers a brutal beating to Don Quixote]], a neighbor from his village meets the wounded Don Quixote and takes him home, where his friends and family burn out the accursed [[Chivalric Romance|books of chivalry]] to try to cure him, but he soon returns to his <s>heroic quest</s> delusion and journey. This time he manages to <s>inspire</s> convince a simple farm-man, [[Foil|Sancho Panza]], to become his squire and sidekick under the [[Standard Hero Reward|promise of a governorship in the future]]. Then they live [[Troperiffic|a lot of adventures]], including the famous one where [[Windmill Crusader|Don Quixote attacks some windmills]] because they <s>are</s> might be [[Windmill Political|giants in disguise]]. At the end of the book, [[Those Two Guys|Don Quixote’s friends]] trick him [[Wrong Genre Savvy|by making him believe he is enchanted]] and take him back to his village.
The story is about an old [[Blue Blood|''hidalgo'']] named Alonso Quijano, [[You Watch Too Much X|who was so into]] [[Chivalric Romance|chivalric novels]] that he became insane and [[Ascended Fanboy|decided that he was a vagrant knight]]. [[Meaningful Rename|Quijano renames himself as "Don Quixote de La Mancha"]] and decides to [[Glory Seeker|win eternal fame]] through [[Knight in Shining Armor|the besting of wrongdoers and general upholding of the Chivalric Code]]. Unfortunately for a lot of innocent people, his delusions [[Lord Error-Prone|make him pick fights]] with <s>other knights</s> innocent bystanders, some of whom do not fight back because Don Quixote is obviously <s>superior in his fighting skills</s> crazy. Of course, there are strangers who are not that sympathetic, and after one of those [[Hilarity Ensues|delivers a brutal beating to Don Quixote]], a neighbor from his village meets the wounded Don Quixote and takes him home, where his friends and family burn out the accursed [[Chivalric Romance|books of chivalry]] to try to cure him, but he soon returns to his <s>heroic quest</s> delusion and journey. This time he manages to <s>inspire</s> convince a simple farm-man, [[Foil|Sancho Panza]], to become his squire and sidekick under the [[Standard Hero Reward|promise of a governorship in the future]]. Then they live [[Troperiffic|a lot of adventures]], including the famous one where [[Windmill Crusader|Don Quixote attacks some windmills]] because they <s>are</s> might be [[Windmill Political|giants in disguise]]. At the end of the book, [[Those Two Guys|Don Quixote’s friends]] trick him [[Wrong Genre Savvy|by making him believe he is enchanted]] and take him back to his village.

Throughout the novel Don Quixote never, even for a moment, doubt that the fictional adventures that he has read were real and that he really is a knight errant. Not even the [[Threshold Guardians|petitions of his loved ones]], [[Humiliation Conga|the continuous ridicule of his peers]] or [[You Can Barely Stand|the brutal beatings he suffers]] made him break his resolution: [[Determinator|Don Quixote always continues trying to impose his quixotic (literally; he's the word's origin) beliefs on the world]].
Throughout the novel Don Quixote never, even for a moment, doubt that the fictional adventures that he has read were real and that he really is a knight errant. Not even the [[Threshold Guardians|petitions of his loved ones]], [[Humiliation Conga|the continuous ridicule of his peers]] or [[You Can Barely Stand|the brutal beatings he suffers]] made him break his resolution: [[Determinator|Don Quixote always continues trying to impose his quixotic (literally; he's the word's origin) beliefs on the world]].


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